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...even more vulnerable to the state with no good reason. I may feel that outrage because in so far as the Panther Party is the vanguard of our revolution the pressures they face are pressures we will eventually face: an opposition force with infinitely greater material resources, that can tap our phones, break down our doors, suborn our comrades, and shoot us down with the law on its side; the constant threat of pain and death. And mistakes the Panthers make, under that pressure, are mistakes we may make someday...
Willing Workshops. Both Rollei and the Japanese firms seem likely to have increasing company in their new locations. All over the industrialized world, accelerating wage inflation is pushing manufacturers into new efforts to tap the vast pool of willing and cheap labor in poorer countries. They are farming out production of component parts, subassemblies and even finished products, sometimes for export to other areas but often for use back home. In the process they are not only cutting their own costs but speeding the industrialization of underdeveloped countries, some of which are coming to relish the role of workshops...
...items. "We've built ourselves on financial agility," boasts Vesco. He persuaded Hale Bros. Associates, a San Francisco investment firm that controls the Broadway-Hale department store chain, to become an early backer by buying $80,000 of stock. I.C.C. was one of the first U.S. firms to tap the hoard of Eurodollars, raising $25 million through an issue of debentures...
...President, Agnew, they mean nothing to me," Joannidi says. "All I know is I'm losing business." Joannidi's business comes from the Marines on weekend passes from nearby Camp Pendleton. When Nixon is in town, 1,000 fewer Marines get passes-allegedly the number kept on tap in case the President is attacked, even though the residents of San Clemente do not seem likely to rise in revolt any time soon. "Now I make $2,400 a weekend less than I did before," Joannidi claims. "This fall I'll hafta lay off three people...
...news. Klein also maintains that cartridge marketing plans and, in fact, cassette converter units are already 20 years out of date. The solution, he says, is cable TV (which perhaps 75% of Americans will have by 1980) hooked to a central computer switching station with hundreds of cassettes on tap. "I call it 'jukebox TV,' " says Klein. Klein leaves NBC this week to form a company to mesh computer retrieval, CATV and the cartridge. He calls the idea "the ultimate 20th century combination,'' and optimistically predicts that it could reach the market in ten years...